The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 98
The queen was greatly surprised that the old woman knew her secret wish so well, and promised to follow her advice.
Who acts: queen, old woman, woman · What happens: be, know, promise, follow, wish · To what, where: secret wish, advice
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, old woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nmod:poss |
| 12 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wish | amod |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 knew | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promised | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 promised | cc |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 advice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 follow | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the old woman | woman's secret wish | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the queen not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | woman's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | woman | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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